Alfredo Positano

in Bistros & Restos 6th to 10th Arr.

The menu is vast but we wanted simplicity today so we shared an antipasto that Luca, the charming Napoleatano owner served us from the groaning table of cippolini, red and yellow sweet peppers, carciofi, funghi, white beans and zucchini.

Col. Bob and I were catching up on politics, Hollywood, Cuban cigars and Lynn Overman, a subject of which we might be the only persons in Paris with a smattering of knowledge

The menu is vast but we wanted simplicity today so we shared an antipasto that Luca, the charming Napoleatano owner served us from the groaning table of cippolini, red and yellow sweet peppers, carciofi, funghi, white beans and zucchini.

A nice peasant red was perfect with this and the rest of the meal.

clams

We both ordered the linguine alla vongole, sweet clams bathed in olive oil and garlic with a few chopped tomatoes.

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This elegantly simple meal concluded with espresso and refreshing limoncello sorbet drowned in limoncello.

Alfredo Positano

9, rue Guisarde 

01 43 26 90 52

75006 Paris 

 

 

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